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DAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)

— Gustave Flaubert

... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote…

— John Ruskin

...the daguerreotype is not merely an instrument which serves to draw Nature; on the contrary it is a chemical and physical process which gives…

— Louis Daguerre

[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.

— Edgar Allan Poe

With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done…

— Soren Kierkegaard

An electric chain seems to vibrate, as it were, between our brain and him or her preserved there [in a Daguerreotype] so well by…

— Walt Whitman

Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The…

— Rosy Cole

Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared…

— Isak Dinesen

I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.

— Sojourner Truth

The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it…

— Joseph Sobran

The prevailing ideology of the modern west - which is political economy - is in the doghouse. Having failed to notice atmospheric pollution, the…

— James Buchan

The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said.

— Ronald Knox